Thank you.

Thank you for coming and letting me talk to you.

I love to talk about the Bible and especially this message which has to do with a kind word to Pharisees so let me pray for us.

Father in heaven, this is a message largely and mainly for me since I don't know these folks I just know me and so when I go to places that I don't know them I just preached to myself and hope somebody might get helped.

So I pray God that you would open this word and apply it to everyone here according to their need and that Christ would be magnified and our faith would be strengthened and our love of mercy would be built and our disgust with sinners would be overcome.

In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen.

Luke Chapter 15, if you have a Bible and you want to watch and read with me, that would be where we're going to go and if you don't

that's fine you can just listen so Matthew Mark Luke chapter 15 Luke.

Chapter 15.

Not going to read the whole chapter.

I'm going to talk about the structure of the chapter

for just a moment, and then we're going to read the last part of it.

So let's go to the beginning, chapter 15 of Luke, verse 1.

Now the tax collectors and the sinners were all drawing near to him.

So tax collectors are these turncoats,

these Jewish expedient compromises.

Nobody likes them. They cheat, they're bad.

And everybody knew they were bad.

And then sinners, that term doesn't mean

there are people who are and people who aren't.

It means these are, this name is used for flagrant open

sinners.

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